RESOLVE

Humanitarian aid caters less than one percent to innovation. In a system unable to respond to crises at the scale, speed and proximity now experienced, bigger thinking is needed on how we communicate, coordinate and collaborate within the humanitarian field to address the growing need for mental health care in major displacement crises and resettlement contexts.

RESOLVE focuses on how enterprise, technology and innovation can better connect people to mental health information to match varying need in real time and how these resources can also help aid workers deal with challenges in reaching patients and providing care. In the field of emerging technologies we give particular attention to the role of virtual reality (VR) and artificial intelligence (AI) in mental health. We look at how businesses, integrating a new workforce, are supporting skills learning, community integration, and language development to ease resettlement stressors, while also being aware and practicing internal workforce wellbeing.

By bringing refugee communities, the private sector, and civil society experts together, RESOLVE seeks to identify how social enterprises, emerging technologies and innovation can help mitigate mental health outcomes and build resilience in communities experiencing high displacement.